Staff Post about Self Harm Tumblr Blogs

I found this article on the staff blog discussing banning blogs which promote eating disorders, self harm or suicide: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/18132624829/self-harm-blogs

It’s interesting and I’m still trying to figure out my perspective about it. I’m glad that they’re acknowledging that blogs promoting eating disorders are a problem on tumblr, and at least creating a discussion about it and asking for input from users.  I hope they are able to distinguish between blogs that promote or give tips about self-harm and eating disorders, versus those which simply discuss someone’s daily life as they struggle with these problems.  There’s a very, very, fine line there.

If those blogs are completely taken down, I have the feeling they’ll just go somewhere else (which could actually be a good thing, because putting pro-ana blogs on a mainstream, high-traffic site like tumblr gives vulnerable people - or those in the beginning stages of an ED - more likelihood to happen across them).